The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                     [6-text p 449] 
                                  
                                  Or for eche of hem / schulde helpyn oþer
                                
                                  In myschif / as a systyr / schal the brothir
                                
                                  And lyuyn in chastite ful holy-ly [folio 263b] 
                                
                                  But siris bi ȝoure leue þat am not I
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                                  ffor god be thankyd I dar make a-vaunt
                                
                                  I fele myn lemys starke & suffisaunt
                                
                                  To do al that a man bihouyth to
                                
                                  I wot myn self best what I may do
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                                  Thow I be hor I fare as doth a tree
                                
                                  That blosmeth er than freut I-wexe bee
                                
                                  A blosmy tre is neythir dreye ne ded
                                
                                  I fele me nower hor but on myn heed
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                                  Myn herte & alle mynne lymys been as grene
                                
                                  As laurer thourgh þe ȝeer is ay seene
                                
                                  And syn that ȝe han herd al myn entente
                                
                                  I prey ȝow to myn wil ȝe wele assente
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                                  ¶ Dyuers men dyuersly hym tolde
                                
                                  Of mariage manye ensaumplis olde
                                
                                  Some blamede it some preysede it certeyn
                                
                                  But at the laste schortely for to seyn
                                  Line 1472 
                                
                                  As alday fallyth altercacioun
                                
                                  By-twyxe fryndys in disputacioun
                                
                                  There fyl a stryf bi-twyxen hise bretheryn two
                                
                                  Of which that on is clepid placebo [Placebo] 
                                
                                  Iustinus sothly cleped was that oþer
                                
                                  Placebo seyde o Ianuarye brothir
                                
                                  fful lityl neede/ hadde ȝe myn lord so decre
                                
                                  Conseyl to axe of ony that is heere
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                                  But that ȝe been so ful of sapience
                                
                                  That ȝow ne lykyth for ȝoure hye prudence
                                
                                  To wyue fro the word of Salamon
                                
                                  [ ] [[No gap in MS, but a mark of omission; and a line is left blank at the bottom of the leaf for the omitted words.] 
                                
                                  Werke alle thynge by conseyl thus seyth he
                                
                                  And thanne schat þou not repente the
                                
                                  And thow that salamon spak swych a word
                                
                                  Myn owene deere brothir & myn lord

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Title: The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 281
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,; 1868-1879.

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